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The Linux equivalent of Folder Actions would probably either be inotify¹ or inotify-tools². 1: https://linux.die.net/man/7/inotify 2: https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/wiki
A much easier to use tool that works using inotify is incron. It's basically like cron except for inotify events. I have a one-liner that OCRs all of my incoming scans, and it's immensely helpful.
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Despite all the disdain for Microsoft in the spirit of slashdot sentiments, Google has turned out to be worse in many respects.
I think everyone had higher expectations for Google, but Microsoft doesn't get the same level of scrutiny for things like running a fully CCP approved version of Bing in China.
It might have something to do with the fact that most media outlets have a vested interest in weakening Google in the public eye. Other than that, What HN/ars is concerned, Google basically seems worse than the military industrial complex and big oil combined.
They certainly do annoying shit. But in this specific case, cloud print was a product that was in beta for almost a decade. It was very unreliable and didn‘t work correctly half of the time. But of course killing it counts as ADHD. A 10-year old non-enterprise niche product is ancient in tech years.
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I know it's beside the point, but you stepped on one of my peeves. Google doesn't have to pay their engineers "a lot". They don't have to keep sucking more and more wealthy people into a concentrated corner of California. They could open a modest office in Nebraska and pay some 5-figure salaries. They could hire some run-of-the-mill college grads to work on a "dead" project. They could cut their teeth on low-profile…
> Spend $1M in St. Louis and move 100 employees out of SF. ~100/100 SF Google engineers would change teams if they received a mandate that their team was relocating to St. Louis (or basically anywhere). Anyone who couldn't arrange to change teams would quit.
I am quick to complain when Google kills a useful project - but I am not mad about this. It was originally created because Chromebooks couldn't print. Chromebooks have been able to print natively for a while now so that is no longer needed. They are also giving over a year of warning. That's plenty of time for people to migrate to a new service or figure out how to implement an alternative. Again I know the Google Gr…
The original purpose should not be the lens to look through for judging something once it’s out, in particular after 10 years where people found countless other uses of it.
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- Printing from Chromebooks - Printing easily from Linux - Printing from your phone - etc.
> - Printing easily from Linux This is as easy as it can be without needing cloud print though > - Printing from Chromebooks > - Printing from your phone This is an artificial restriction created by google. There is already a network printing protocol that works without the "cloud". You just have to support it.
>It's enterprise-ready Hahahahahaha oh man they actually wrote that. Sorry for the useless comment, but I just wonder how many companies got conned into basing their printing infrastructure on yet another Google experiment. I don't think it really matters, of course. Android phones have a full set of manufacturer-specific printing drivers which work fine over the local network, and geofft noted upthread that ChromeOS…
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Try out the "Mopria print service" (mobile printing alliance), most big manufacturers are part of it. They provide a generic driver app for Android that works for mobile printing with models from multiple manufacturers.
It "powers the Samsung print service." The one that always says my printer is offline. "Your document may pass through multiple servers. Is that ok?" Sigh. And it printed simplex.
Google Cloud Print was a disaster. I could get it to work properly maybe 20% of the time, even with Android devices using the app and Chromebooks. A favorite bug involved a simple print job from one of my kid's Chromebook causing a Brother printer to "print" a blank piece of paper for every sheet remaining in the main tray. By comparison, AirPrint just worked, quickly recognizing new printers from new devices and run…
To print to an AirPrint printer over LAN from Android, one needs to install the Google Cloud Print apk from Play Store. (I witnessed just this week that it didn't work on a newly set up Android One device running Android 9 before installing Cloud Print from Play Store.) With the cloud part of Cloud Print gone, will Google continue to provide the AirPrint-compatible Android software so that Android users won't have to…